As you may have heard, a hacker has released data implicating CRU as less than straightforward about AGW. Our own Charlie Martin has a piece up on PJM. The reputation of the Hockey Team could suffer as a result. I have plotted the hypothetical relationship between reading the hacked emails and Hockey Team's reputation. As more emails are read, the reputation plummets.

But what if the Hockey Team were to run some filters on the data and instead create email proxies. These proxies have the advantage of getting rid of unwanted noise. Maybe it would look like this.

Gee, it's not so bad after all. A reputation Hockey Stick, the more you read, they better it looks.

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You could use the same technique on the unemployment, er... I mean funemployment numbers.

While us bumpkins see the percentage of unemployed raising, those more sophisticated see the hypothetical percentage of non-saved jobs declining due to jobs created in imaginary Congressional districts.

I like it. It's simple, just click your heels together three times and flip the graph.